Sumatra 0.3.0

About Sumatra

Sumatra is a tool for managing and tracking projects based on numerical
simulation and/or analysis, with the aim of supporting reproducible research.
It can be thought of as an automated electronic lab notebook for computational
projects.

It consists of:

a command-line interface, smt, for launching simulations/analyses with
automatic recording of information about the experiment, annotating these
records, linking to data files, etc.

a web interface with a built-in web-server, smtweb, for browsing and
annotating simulation/analysis results.

a Python API, on which smt and smtweb are based, that can be used in your own
scripts in place of using smt, or could be integrated into a GUI-based
application.

Sumatra is currently alpha code, and should be used with caution and frequent
backups of your records.

allow the re-running of previous simulations/analyses with automatic
verification that the results are unchanged

launch single or batch experiments, serial or parallel

Requirements

Sumatra requires Python versions 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7. The web interface requires
Django (>= 1.2) and the django-tagging package.
Sumatra requires that you keep your own code in a version control
system (currently Subversion, Mercurial, Git and Bazaar are supported). If you
are already using Mercurial or Bazaar there is nothing else to install. If you
are using Subversion you will need to install the pysvn package. If you using
Git, you will need to install git-python bindings.

Installation

These instructions are for Unix, Mac OS X. They may work on Windows as well, but
it hasn’t been tested.